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waffle

[wof-uhl] / ˈwɒf əl /


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Yet it sits in one of South Carolina’s poorest counties, surrounded by waffle houses, dollar stores and personal injury lawyers.

From The Wall Street Journal May 24, 2026

Be honest with yourself: Are you really going to use the dusty waffle maker in your kitchen cabinet?

From MarketWatch Feb. 23, 2026

She put the sweet and savory ingredients and eggs in the waffle maker.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 21, 2025

Instead teachers are being fed waffle about eye-contact, hand signals and merits.

From BBC Jun. 18, 2025

As in the Pantheon, the domed roof was a waffle pattern of recessed square panels, but here each panel was a stela—a grave marker with Ancient Greek inscriptions.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

He threw out defeatism and acted when everyone else waffled.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 5, 2026

Sauer waffled, prompting Justice Sonia Sotomayor to leap in and tell him: “Could you just answer the justice’s question?”

From Slate Nov. 5, 2025

While Dolan’s office said New York was “blessed with the greatest bagel stores in the world,” the cardinal waffled on announcing from which establishment he would be buying the goods.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 25, 2024

That came after Rodgers waffled on whether he should make the trip and skip a couple of full days of rehab.

From Seattle Times Oct. 17, 2023

Every time he waffled, though, Lydia would whip out her phone or her laptop and show him the steadily increasing number of views, comments, and likes “Dearly” had.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner

It’s important to precisely define and label this market shift—how else can I claim to have seen it coming all along, while waffling about what happens next?

From Barron's Feb. 20, 2026

When “Yellowstone,” Sheridan’s first show, premiered in 2018, #MeToo was reverberating across television with producers waffling over whether to villainize or defend macho characters.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 31, 2025

But this constant tonal waffling results in an audience that sees something strange and laughs because they’ve been trained by filmmakers to think that, when something is uncomfortable, laughter is the appropriate response.

From Salon Aug. 8, 2025

“He moves with intent, there’s no waffling around or looking around. He knew where to go,” Henderson said.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 23, 2023

The judge seemed to be waffling as well.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng




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